This is a picture of Taza Chocolate's delicious, limited edition 75% chocolate bar that was made with cacao beans that came from a farming community in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. My bar, as you can see, was number 660 of the total 1,392 bars that were made.
Chiapas made it's own special mark on chocolate history in 1648. Here's the story: The ladies of Chiapas liked to indulge in their chocolate drinking several times a day, so much that they were having their maids bring it to church and serve it to them during sermons. The bishop didn't like that, and tried to stop them by excommunicating anyone who dared drink chocolate during church. They didn't like that, and sent him poisoned chocolate. Then he drank it and died! And so the saying went, "Beware the chocolate of Chiapas."
I learned about this story in this book, by Thomas Gage (who was there!) Pg 161.
